How to format your references using the Research Involvement and Engagement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Involvement and Engagement. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Lifschitz V. John McCarthy (1927-2011). Nature. 2011;480:40.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vaquero-Sedas MI, Vega-Palas MA. Differential association of Arabidopsis telomeres and centromeres with histone H3 variants. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1202.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hosseini P, Wright CD, Bhaskaran H. An optoelectronic framework enabled by low-dimensional phase-change films. Nature. 2014;511:206–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pezzoli M, Elhamdani A, Camacho S, Meystre J, González SM, le Coutre J, et al. Dampened neural activity and abolition of epileptic-like activity in cortical slices by active ingredients of spices. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6825.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Ruckmongathan TN. Addressing Techniques of Liquid Crystal Displays. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Diodato N, Bellocchi G, editors. Storminess and Environmental Change: Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Makbol NM, Khoo BE. A Hybrid Robust Image Watermarking Scheme Using Integer Wavelet Transform, Singular Value Decomposition and Arnold Transform. In: Zaman HB, Robinson P, Olivier P, Shih TK, Velastin S, editors. Advances in Visual Informatics: Third International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2013, Selangor, Malaysia, November 13-15, 2013 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 36–47.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Research Involvement and Engagement.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Secrets of the Flying Snake Revealed [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/secrets-flying-snake-revealed/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Issues Related to FAA’s Modernization of the Air Traffic Control System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Feb. Report No.: T-RCED-90-32.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mishne J. An investigation of the relationships between technology use and teachers’ self-efficacy, knowledge and experience [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Kanter J, Povoledo E. E.U. Leaders Project Unity, Despite Concerns of Failure. New York Times. 2017 Mar 25;A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Involvement and Engagement
Abbreviation	Res. Involv. Engagem.
ISSN (online)	2056-7529
Scope